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Etymology and Mythology Vocab
Vocab from the Inferno
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English
11th Grade
04/12/2010

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abyss
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a bottomless or very great depth
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ague
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any fit of shaking or shivering; a chill
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avarice
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excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain; greed
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beatitude
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supreme happiness, bliss; a blessing
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bile
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bitter greenish-yellow liquid that aids digestion; ill humor; anger; bitterness of feeling
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blaspheme
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speak of or address with irreverence
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bolgia
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pit
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carnage
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slaughter of a great number of people; wholesale killing; butchery
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clarion
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clear and shrill; a trumpet with clear, shrill tones
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cuckoldry
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making a husband a cuckold, one whose wife was unfaithful
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cupidity
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eager desire to possess something; greed
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dalliance
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act of playing amorously; frivolous action
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debauchery
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extreme indulgence in sensuality
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depravity
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corruption; corrupt act or practice
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disdain
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to look down on; scorn
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dissimulation
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pretense; deceit; hypocrisy
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dissolute
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living an immoral life; very wicked; immoral; unrestrained
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ecclesiastic*
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a clergyman, or person in orders; a churchman as distinguished from a layman
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edict
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a public order or command by some authority; decree
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escarpment
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a steep slope; cliff
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fallible
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liable to be deceived or mistaken; likely to err; unreliable; liable to be false
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ferocity
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great cruelty; savage behavior; fierceness
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fetid*
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smelling very bad; stinking
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fleer
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laugh or grimace in a coarse, derisive manner
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gaudy*
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tastelessly ornamented; flashy
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glut
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to fill; satiate
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graft
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the taking of money dishonestly in connection w/ city or gov't business; political dishonesty, corruption, and the like; a method of getting money dishonestly
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gull
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to deceive; cheat; dupe; a person who is easily deceived or cheated
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hale
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free from defect, disease, or infirmity; retaining exceptional health and vigor
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harlot
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prostitute
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ignominiously
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shamefully; disgracefully; dishonorably; contemptiby
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incessantly
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without stopping; continuously
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incorporeal
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having no material body or form
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lamentation
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act or instance of mourning
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lecherous
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lewd; lustful
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livid
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very pale; grayish-white; black-and-blue
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mountebank
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anybody who tries to deceive people by tricks, stories, and jokes; charlatan
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mundanity
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mundane quality; worldliness; worldly feelings
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odious*
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exciting or deserving hatred or repugnance
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offal
Definition
waste products of an animal that has been killed for food; garbage; refuse; rubbish; carrion
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omnipotence
Definition
state of being all-powerful; with unlimited authority and influence
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piqued*
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irritated; provoked
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primordial*
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first created; fundamental
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probity*
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high principle; uprightness; honesty
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propriety*
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fitness; proper behavior
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raillery
Definition
teasing; joking; a bantering remark
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retribution
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recompense, reward; dispensing/receiving of reward or punishment; punishment
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rivulet
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a very small stream
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rout
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crowd of people; throng
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sage
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very wise man; showing wisdom or good judgement; wise; able to give good advice; grave; solomn
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schism
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division into hostile groups; a discord or breach between persons or things
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scourge
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to flog or whip; punish severely
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sepulcher
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a place for putting the bodies of persons who have died; tomb; grave; structure or recess in old churches in which sacred relics were deposited on the Thursday or Friday before Easter to be taken out at Easter
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Seraphim
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an angel; one of the six-winged angles in God's presence
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shrewd
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clever, with a keen wit; having a sharp mind; effective; keen; piercing
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skewed
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twisted to one side; slanted
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spleen
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ill will; bad temper
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steeped
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soaked in; filled with; permeated by (a liquid)
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strumpet
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prostitute
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sublime
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noble; grand; majestic; lofty; exalted; excellent; eminent; supreme; expressing lofty ideas
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supine
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lying flat on the back; lazily inactive; listless, especially morally or mentally; passive; sloping backwards
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sycophant
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servile or self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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tumult
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disorderly agitation; milling around; violent agitation of the mind or feelings; commotion; riot
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unction
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act of annointing w/ oil, ointment, or the like for religious or medical purposes; something soothing or comforting; earnestness
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unshriven
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guilty; w/o the sacrament of penance
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valor
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bravery; courage
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verdant
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green; inexperienced
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vestibule
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lobby; cavity serving as and entrance to another space
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vexation
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irritation; annoyance; something that annoys, worries, or harasses by interference with peace or quiet
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viscid
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thick and sticky like heavy syrup or glue; sticky; glutinous; adhesive viscous
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wraith
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ghost; specter
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